South Korea license plate: Motorcycle

Format, years and the law

Format

999999, for example 489785 (9 any digit)

A grammar no Korean car has: the first digit is a vehicle-type code (1 to 9), then a two-character use code, one private-use syllable plus a digit 1 to 9, then the four-digit serial. No place name anywhere: 2026 finished on two wheels what 2004 did on four.

The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.

Years issued

2026 to today. Still issued.

Vehicle class

Motorcycle: reduced-size series for motorcycles where format/design differs. Issued for motorcycle.

Colours

Characters #393D45 Background #E4DFD8

Size

210 × 150 mm · every country's size

About this plate

THE NEW KOREAN MOTORCYCLE PLATE, in force 20 March 2026, bigger (210 x 150 mm against 210 x 115 mm), region-less, and with a genuinely new grammar: a leading vehicle-type digit that no car plate has, and a two-character use code made of a syllable plus a digit. It is the first Korean motorcycle plate to carry no geography, finishing on two wheels what the 2004 amendment did on four. The colours also change: Article 4(2) puts this plate on the same pinkish-white/purplish-black pair as cars, where the Annex 13/14/15 plate it replaces is white with BLUE characters.

Region code notes

Art. 6 proviso expressly exempts the Annex 15-2 plate from the authority mark, the 2026 change that took geography off Korean motorcycles

About the format

Digit skeleton only; the printed mark is 1가2 over 3456 on two lines, a one-digit VEHICLE-TYPE code, a hangul USE syllable, a one-digit use suffix, then a four-digit serial. Art. 5(2): "1. 차종 기호: 1부터 9까지의 숫자 1자리 기호 2. 용도 기호: 제1항에 따른 용도별 비사업용 기호 1자리와 1부터 9까지의 숫자 1자리를 순서대로 표시한 2자리 기호".

Legal basis and sources

1. law.go.kr https://www.law.go.kr/DRF/lawService.do?OC=test&target=admrul&ID=2100000256300&type=XML
2. 고시 제2025-676호 부칙: '다만, 별표 15의2 제2호의 개정규정은 2026년 3월 20일부터 시행한다', the character-metric amendment lands on the same day https://www.law.go.kr/DRF/lawService.do?OC=test&target=admrul&ID=2100000268520&type=XML
3. Annex 15-2 drawing: 이륜자동차번호판 210x150 mm, line 1 cells 31.5|48|31.5 at 46.5 mm, line 2 four cells of 45 at 68 mm, sample mark 1가2 / 3456 https://www.law.go.kr/LSW/flDownload.do?flSeq=158474471
4. 자동차관리법 제49조 (이륜자동차 사용신고) and 제52조 (applying the registration-plate provisions to motorcycles) https://www.law.go.kr/DRF/lawService.do?OC=test&target=law&LM=%EC%9E%90%EB%8F%99%EC%B0%A8%EA%B4%80%EB%A6%AC%EB%B2%95&...